California researchers have determined that children living with many siblings or with adults in addition to their parents visit the doctor less often and use fewer prescriptions than children in more typical families.
The findings, drawn from a nationwide survey of more than 26,000 children living in two-parent homes, are not due to demographic factors, parental education, child-rearing experience or children's health status, researchers say, but rather to “finite parental resources” in both time and money.
– THE WASHINGTON POST
